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Tend to annoy petshop staff with their knowledge? I rub them up the wrong way ? That sounds kinda wrong but you know what I mean.
 
I don't buy my animal foods from there. I get them from a wholesalers where they don't sell animals, but I nose in them ::)
 
I do go to a garden centre that sells guins, but don't lecture anyone, only potential buyers if hey ask a question (or my mum pipes up that I have a rescue LOL!). Like you my stuff comes from a wholesaler and some from online. Thank goodness for farm shops :)
 
That's the thing I don't go out of my way to lecture people. It just slips out before I can stop myself! :o
 
Yep, when the staff try to recommend things to me, such as vitamin drops or exercise balls, I tell them that they are giving out the wrong advice and that they are directly causing piggies to suffer. I have upset quite a few. I have stopped going into pet shops altogether now though.
 
At my new vets I had to tell the girl on the desk that guineas do not have nil by mouth before surgery ::) ::) ::)
She said Rocky would have to go in a box with only newspaper, and no hay or cereal or water for 12 hours prior to surgery :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff:

God, I miss Roger :smitten:
 
lack of confidence keeps me quiet, or i could get very excited with them
 
The one where I got Sunshine from I could happily thump the owner. She is so narky and everytime someone buys a guinea from her I hear her say you aren't putting him in with another boar are you? They will fight, he'd be better with a rabbit! 98) So when I was buying my timothy hay I said actually, sorry to interupt but I've two boars living happily together and do not put in with a rabbit etc etc. I God her face was like thunder! I haven't been back since, Peter will have to get me my Hay! Actually they do the same stuff in a none selling animals shop near his work! I'm scared now! :D

Louise
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I have a lack of confidence most of time but around animals I don't! :o It's pretty weird really :o
 
I was in this petshop and they were displaying this stuff with the C&C grids in the solid blue . I wnet up to the staff and go:
"Did you know you can use those grids for guinea pig cages?"
Petshop owner- "No you can't - they only snap together"
"you can because i have some"
"you can't , No"

Then i walked out the shop - snobby cow.
LOl!
 
I tend to linger around the staff as they try and give info out on guinea pigs ready to pounce at any moment, god help them if they get anything wrong!
 
I dont usally say anything to them unless something is really bad...

I'm only 13 so am not really going to annoy someone at a pet shop that does probably know more than me am I? ;D
 
I have had a stand-up row in the middle of a pet shop before. :D They had a guinea pig being beaten up by an enormous rabbit in a sale pen, and after they took the lid off and I picked up and cuddled the pig, I let rip on them for putting the bunnies in with the piggies.......... they let me take the pig home for free and I don't speak to them anymore. The pig in question was called Sprout and we only lost him last week actually. He had a dodgy heart so at least he went peacefully in the end. :smitten:

I keep an eye on other places locally but the only two places I really go to (a pet shop and the local garden centre) are very good and their head staff are properly trained in various animal areas.
 
PigPog said:
I have had a stand-up row in the middle of a pet shop before. :D They had a guinea pig being beaten up by an enormous rabbit in a sale pen, and after they took the lid off and I picked up and cuddled the pig, I let rip on them for putting the bunnies in with the piggies.......... they let me take the pig home for free and I don't speak to them anymore. The pig in question was called Sprout and we only lost him last week actually. He had a dodgy heart so at least he went peacefully in the end. :smitten:

I keep an eye on other places locally but the only two places I really go to (a pet shop and the local garden centre) are very good and their head staff are properly trained in various animal areas.
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Omigod! Poor little chap probably had heart condition because of being beaten up by the bunny! Poor love 0:) Well done you for taking him in and shame on them for allowing it to happen in the first place!
 
cashmincal said:
What is up Micheala?
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I have to babysit - the baby is soooo mardy and all she does is cry ::) - my sis just got her to sleep and my sis said y dont i go upstairs on computer ;D so i am whilst shes downstairs watching her shes only 1 and my sisters younger than me shes 16 :D - thanks 4 asking though cashmincal O0
 
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